This book describes Juan-Manuel Fangio's youth in Buenos Aires, his first steps in motor racing in Argentina, and then his move to Europe where he scooped all Formula One honors. Like Fangio himself, this illustrated biography also delivers comprehensive results, featuring several hundred photographs and car drawings. Until last year, Juan-Manuel Fangio was the sole owner of the Formula One World Titles record, winning it a remarkable five times (a record only just now equaled by Michael Schumacher). His unique style is much admired by Schumacher himself, who admits that drivers of the past were in another world.
Now in its 19th year of publication, the «Formula One Yearbook» is the most complete annual dedicated to Formula One. It is viewed as “the” reference book due to the complete data given with each Grand Prix. Translated into five languages, its print run is more than 100 000 copies sold worldwide.
Who would have thought that this shy little Austrian, crumbling under financial debts, would become one of the most celebrated drivers in Formula One history. From competing in World Championships to his tragic accident at the Nurburgring, this book on Niki Lauda's Formula 1 racing career is part of the Legends series, which covers the most exciting and popular drivers in the history of the Formula One Championship.
With 864 pages and over 1200 photos, many of them showing historic moments from the Fifties and Sixties, The Great Encyclopedia of Formula 1 is the most exhaustive work ever published on motor sport's elite category. It includes detailed full color paintings of every car which has regularly raced in the Championship. Team by team, decade by decade, driver by driver, a detailed account of all the events, anecdotes and legends that have made up the 51-year history of F1.
This biography explains the racing career of four times world champion Alain Prost from childhood until retirement. It features comprehensive career statistics and several hundred photographs as well as interviews of key people related to Prost's career.
After Fangio and before Moss, Alberto Ascari was the most exciting driver of the 1950's. This well-rounded little Milanese started racing motorcycles in 1936. A collection of the best and most famous drivers of the Formula One Championship are covered in this fascinating Legend Series title on Alberto Ascari.
En una remota provincia de China, las mujeres crearon hace siglos un lenguaje secreto para comunicarse libremente entre s: el nu shu. Aisladas en sus casas y sometidas a la frrea autoridad masculina, el nu shu era su nica va de escape. Mediante sus mensajes, escritos o bordados en telas, abanicos y otros objetos, daban testimonio de un mundo tan sofisticado como implacable. El ao 2002, la autora de esta novela viaj a la provincia de Huan, cuna de esta milenaria escritura fontica, para estudiarla en profundidad. Su prologanda estancia le permiti recoger testimonios de mujeres que la conocan, as como de la ltima hablante de nu shu, la nonagenaria Yan Huanyi. A partir de aquellas investigaciones. Lisa See concibi esta conmovedora historia sobre la amistad entre dos mujeres, Lirio Blanco y Flor de Nieve.
Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios. De temperamentos casi opuestos, las dos son hermosas y jóvenes y, pese a haber sido criadas en el seno de una familia de valores tradicionales, visten a la última moda, posan para los artistas publicitarios y viven con la sola preocupación de asimilar lo que llega de Occidente. Pero cuando la fortuna familiar sufre un golpe irreversible, el futuro de Pearl y May se tiñe de precariedad e incertidumbre. Con los bombardeos japoneses a las puertas de la ciudad, las hermanas iniciarán un largo viaje que las llevará a California, donde su estrecha relación se pondrá a prueba. Sin embargo, a pesar de los celos y la rivalidad, ambas lucharán por permanecer unidas, a la vez que intentarán hallar fuerzas para salir adelante en unas más que difíciles circunstancias. Después de cautivar a cientos de miles de lectores con El abanico de seda, Lisa See abre una nueva ventana a un mundo asombroso. Cuajada de detalles históricos y maravillosos personajes, Dos chicas de Shanghai es una novela sobre la complejidad de los sentimientos que anidan en el seno de la familia y marcan el destino de las personas.
In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from a famed opera rumored to cause love sickness and even death. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow
It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate. The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters.
